Quote from Bagstone» The day they nerf my Mirrorball I will celebrate. Why? Because it frees up the shackles of having to use a certain overpowered item. I am bound to use Magic Missiles in my build
Or you could chose to not play with the Item at all. Its a matter of your own free Will.
I found one, and i salvaged it...because i never liked Magic Missles in the first Place.
The Statement : I got it, now i got to play with it is pretty narrow minded.
And its also the Reason why Items get nerfed, because People run around with this Mindset.
You forget that min-maxing is a thing.
There are some people, like Alkaizer, or Jaetch, or seemingly also Bagstone (If he plays/played WoW, is/was probably a high-level raider as well), who will do absolutely anything they can to eke out the tiniest performance gain from their character. If that means abusing Mirror Ball? So be it. If that means abusing Moonlight Ward? Let it be done.
And no, people like this don't just exist in games. What do you think the Olympics are?
You're running the Heat Wave build, da? Anyway, the calculation is simple: is the +elemental/fire/Wave of Force damage increase (ie. +15% to fire skills) higher than the % loss of sheet dps? Yes? use it. no? shard it.
Title says it all. The AH is so useless for this item (since it won't let you search for stats that that slot normally can't roll).
So. WTB Stone of Jordan with at least 2.0 spirit regen and bonus to Sweeping Wind damage (12% would be nice, but anything will do). Not concerned about +% elemental damage type or bonus +damage vs elites.
You answered your own question before you even asked it.
Everything is about crit damage and crit chance (and for most builds, increased attack speed also): that amulet rolled only one of those - when it can roll all three - and a low roll at that: 6% out of a possible 10%.
That amulet, and I hate to say it, is essentially worthless. Not useless (unless you have better), but certainly worthless.
Everyone who says they would take 800 of primary "dps" stat and no vit are deluding themselves. You realize you would have the vitality of a level one character, right? You would have, oh.... less than a thousand hp before gear. You would die if anything even looked at you wrong: my wizard (granted, I'm not very well geared) has 603 vitality from gear, which is only another... what? 15k hp? Inferno would become rather untenable.
But then, the bulk of DPS in D2 came not from the primary stat, but from skills and skillpoints (and a reasonably good weapon).
overneathe, just let go. I was about to post the same, but when you read this bit: "can't be assed to make several art copies" you realize that someone is not even interested in making up an argument and just wants to channel its hatred towards Blizzard. Haters gonna hate... and can't come up with constructive criticism.
What I said was hardly "hate." If I could find the source, I would - it's a response to an unrelated thread somewhere in the November blue tracker entries (at least I think it was November - haven't been paying much attention in Dec what with exams and final projects due), and seems to have gone AWOL on me. The blue post said something along the lines of "we don't want to make the art department make several skins of legendary items, because it takes time and effort." (The implication being that it's too much effort for a mostly pointless vanity change, when the art department could be making cool entirely new items/monsters/horrific ways for our toons to die.)
In keeping with the thread spirit, If nothing else, I'd like to see the eldritch custom dyes that some legendary/set items have made available as regular dyes. The teal blue of Inna's and the rich purple of Tal Rasha's spring to mind most readily (owing to those being the only two I've really noticed on such items so far). I know for a fact my girlfriend would pay through the nose to get that shade of purple on her character's gear.
Yeah, I know. I'm on the verge of just not posting at all at this point. I'll just mod when appropriate and post in off-topic I suppose.
Is this an attempt to elicit pity? "Oh no! don't not post!"? I would have said the same thing regardless of who posted it, because I looked at the post, not the poster - like any reasonable forum reader should do. I didn't even realize it was a cm rep until you got quoted by someone else. If you're getting flak because of who you are/what you represent (site admin.), then it's time for some banhammering amongst the rabble. Especially considering for what I can recall of your posts they're mostly interesting, informative, or amusing. (And yes, I am aware of the irony considering the opening of this paragraph.)
Legendary dying is in the works, it's some bug on the programming side that they're trying to remove. Class specific items can't roll only useful stats as they'll become instant BIS.
Legendary dyeing is't a bug, they just can't be assed to make several art copies of the items in different colors (which is how dyeing works - use that Infernal dye on an item and the game displays the art of that item in Infernal color).
As for class specific items rolling garbage stats: I've seen Spirit Stones roll with bonuses to Wizard skills. Quivers with +mana. Bonuses like that which are completely impossible to take advantage of should be removed. Yea, that Uhkapian serpent might suck since it rolled 150+ DEX, but hey, at least it didn't roll APoC, which is possible under current conditions.
Also, there will never be a gold sink in Diablo 3, because that would cut down on gold sales (people wouldn't sell gold if they actually NEED it), so Blizz wouldn't get their cut.
I'm looking for a Lacuni Prowlers with 6%CC, at least 80-85 Int, and either vitality or all resist (not super concerned with which) of at least 50-60. Preferably without junk stats like dex (no offense, monks and DH's).
PM me, post here, or my battletag is Sovngarde#1313.
I think the reason it doesn't search stats on legendaries is because legendaries often have stats that that slot normally can't roll. Ice Climber boots with a socket, Lacuni Prowler bracers with movement speed, attack speed shows up on several that can't roll it normally (ie every single armor item except gloves that has it).
The search listing stat filters won't even let you search (curse you, I am trying to find a 9% IAS Tal Rasha chest, you wretched AH!) for these "wrong-slot" stats, so for ease of headaches until they figure out how to let it make an exception for legendaries, it is simply disabled.
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There are some people, like Alkaizer, or Jaetch, or seemingly also Bagstone (If he plays/played WoW, is/was probably a high-level raider as well), who will do absolutely anything they can to eke out the tiniest performance gain from their character. If that means abusing Mirror Ball? So be it. If that means abusing Moonlight Ward? Let it be done.
And no, people like this don't just exist in games. What do you think the Olympics are?
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Your monk is just wearing two rares for rings.
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So. WTB Stone of Jordan with at least 2.0 spirit regen and bonus to Sweeping Wind damage (12% would be nice, but anything will do). Not concerned about +% elemental damage type or bonus +damage vs elites.
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Everything is about crit damage and crit chance (and for most builds, increased attack speed also): that amulet rolled only one of those - when it can roll all three - and a low roll at that: 6% out of a possible 10%.
That amulet, and I hate to say it, is essentially worthless. Not useless (unless you have better), but certainly worthless.
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Sabaton! \m/
Currently, Xandria - Sisters of the Light
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But then, the bulk of DPS in D2 came not from the primary stat, but from skills and skillpoints (and a reasonably good weapon).
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What I said was hardly "hate." If I could find the source, I would - it's a response to an unrelated thread somewhere in the November blue tracker entries (at least I think it was November - haven't been paying much attention in Dec what with exams and final projects due), and seems to have gone AWOL on me. The blue post said something along the lines of "we don't want to make the art department make several skins of legendary items, because it takes time and effort." (The implication being that it's too much effort for a mostly pointless vanity change, when the art department could be making cool entirely new items/monsters/horrific ways for our toons to die.)
In keeping with the thread spirit, If nothing else, I'd like to see the eldritch custom dyes that some legendary/set items have made available as regular dyes. The teal blue of Inna's and the rich purple of Tal Rasha's spring to mind most readily (owing to those being the only two I've really noticed on such items so far). I know for a fact my girlfriend would pay through the nose to get that shade of purple on her character's gear.
Is this an attempt to elicit pity? "Oh no! don't not post!"? I would have said the same thing regardless of who posted it, because I looked at the post, not the poster - like any reasonable forum reader should do. I didn't even realize it was a cm rep until you got quoted by someone else. If you're getting flak because of who you are/what you represent (site admin.), then it's time for some banhammering amongst the rabble. Especially considering for what I can recall of your posts they're mostly interesting, informative, or amusing. (And yes, I am aware of the irony considering the opening of this paragraph.)
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Legendary dyeing is't a bug, they just can't be assed to make several art copies of the items in different colors (which is how dyeing works - use that Infernal dye on an item and the game displays the art of that item in Infernal color).
As for class specific items rolling garbage stats: I've seen Spirit Stones roll with bonuses to Wizard skills. Quivers with +mana. Bonuses like that which are completely impossible to take advantage of should be removed. Yea, that Uhkapian serpent might suck since it rolled 150+ DEX, but hey, at least it didn't roll APoC, which is possible under current conditions.
Also, there will never be a gold sink in Diablo 3, because that would cut down on gold sales (people wouldn't sell gold if they actually NEED it), so Blizz wouldn't get their cut.
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I can't decide if it's funny or offensive that the English reads "Piece of gayke."
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I'm looking for a Lacuni Prowlers with 6%CC, at least 80-85 Int, and either vitality or all resist (not super concerned with which) of at least 50-60. Preferably without junk stats like dex (no offense, monks and DH's).
PM me, post here, or my battletag is Sovngarde#1313.
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RMAH, and more money than sense.
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The search listing stat filters won't even let you search (curse you, I am trying to find a 9% IAS Tal Rasha chest, you wretched AH!) for these "wrong-slot" stats, so for ease of headaches until they figure out how to let it make an exception for legendaries, it is simply disabled.
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If it's any consolation, Jaetch, I use a Dark Mage's shade on my Wizard over a Mempo because I love my pointy hat just too much to ditch it